Welcome to CMEMS, 2025-2026!
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News
Vera Geranpayeh has been selected as the 2025 Marilyn Yalom prize winner for her research on representations of female subjectivity and Otherness in German literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
Applications are now open for the Rome Archive Seminar 2026 sponsored by the University of Notre Dame, Princeton, and Stanford. The deadline for applications is October 31, 2025. For further information on how to apply and the criteria, see: https://apply.interf
Awarded to: Lane B. Baker, “The Sound of Sin: Episcopal Noise Regulation in the Later Middle Ages,” Viator 52, no. 2.
Workshops and Research Groups
CMEMS sponsors and co-sponsors a wide range of workshops and research groups at Stanford!
Each of the research groups provide a range of possibilities for students and faculty to engage in discussion and debate about medieval and early modern scholarship.
- The focal point of CMEMS, this lunchtime workshop exists to engage the interdisciplinary cohort of medieval and early modern scholars at Stanford in an ongoing discussion and collaboration.
- Organizing research workshops, reading groups, and medieval Latin lessons, this workshop serves graduate students at Stanford on any aspect of the Middle Ages broadly understood.
Recent Happenings
Date
Wednesday, October 30, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
The weekly workshop is held in the German Studies Library in Pigott Hall (Bldg 260, Rm 252) from 12-1:15 PM on Wednesdays. Lunch is provided.
[co-sponsored by Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures]
Date
Wednesday, October 23, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
The weekly workshop is held in the German Studies Library in Pigott Hall (Bldg 260, Rm 252) from 12-1:15 PM on Wednesdays. Lunch is provided.
What is concubinage? Who is a concubine? This talk studies the practice of concubinage among the merchant class and urban poor and focuses on the…
Date
Wednesday, October 16, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
The weekly workshop is held in the German Studies Library in Pigott Hall (Bldg 260, Rm 252) from 12-1:15 PM on Wednesdays. Lunch is provided.
The history of Hamlet criticism can be characterized by polarized perspectives attending either to the material dimensions of print and production…